OT, question on IMAP

[Ken Murchison]

Etienne Goyer wrote:

> Hi list,
> 
> Sorry for this OT message.  I have a question about IMAP-the-protocol,
> and I guessed tis is where I had the better chance of a good answer.

Read RFC 3501.


> It's very simple actually.  From a program I am writing, I want to know
> how many messages in a mailbox are read or not.  I guess I must must
> somehow query for the \Seen flag.  While I am at it, why not make it
> generic and query how many messages in a mailbox have a particuliar flag
> set.  
> 
> So my question is : what would an IMAP client send to determine how many
> message in a particuliar mailbox have a particuliar flag setted ?  Is it
> possible to reverse this and ask how many messages *don't* have a
> particuliar flag setted ?

Cyrus will tell you how many messages exist in a mailbox and how many 
are unseen when you SELECT/EXAMINE it.  Otherwise you would have to use 
SEARCH SEEN, SEARCH UNSEEN, SEARCH FLAGGED, etc and count the results.

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